OSDL Extends Leadership Team with Appointment of Chief Financial Officer

BEAVERTON, Ore., Aug. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux, today announced the appointment of Mike Temple to the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Temple brings more than 25 years experience in finance and operations to the OSDL executive team, including 15 years in CFO and general management roles and 10 years in public accounting practice.

Temple's naming to this new OSDL executive position follows the recent appointment of OSDL's director of Europe, Middle East and Africa. The appointments represent OSDL's ongoing development of its global leadership team.

"Our reach is now global and to achieve our goals we've tapped an experienced finance executive to help us fulfill our mission," said Stuart Cohen, CEO of OSDL. "Mike has been successful in finance internationally and in high tech and his background is just what we need to take OSDL to the next level."

"I look forward to working with OSDL and its members and I'm excited to contribute to their mission of accelerating the adoption of Linux in the enterprise," Temple said.

Most recently, Temple was executive vice president and general manager at Bioject, Inc. He has also served as vice president and CFO for Upright Systems, an internet services and software development company, Instromedix, Inc., and the Yoshida Group. Prior to that, Temple was in public accounting practice with the international accounting firm of Laventhol & Horwath. About Open Source Development Labs

OSDL -- home to Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux -- is dedicated to accelerating the growth and adoption of Linux in the enterprise. Founded in 2000 and supported by a global consortium of major Linux customers and IT industry leaders, OSDL is a nonprofit organization that provides state-of-the-art computing and test facilities available to developers around the world. With offices in China, Europe, Japan and the United States, OSDL sponsors initiatives for Linux in telecommunications, in the enterprise data center and on corporate desktops. Visit OSDL on the Web at http://www.osdl.org/ . NOTE: OSDL is a trademark of Open Source Development Labs, Inc. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. Third party marks and brands are the property of their respective holders.